5 “For he has laid low those inhabiting the height,+ the elevated town.+ He abases it, he abases it to the earth; he brings it in touch with the dust.+

6 “FLEE out of the midst of Babylon,+ and provide escape each one for his own soul.+ Do not be rendered inanimate* through her error.+ For it is the time of vengeance belonging to Jehovah.+ There is treatment that he is paying back to her.+

6 “Hey there! Hey there! Flee, then, YOU people, from the land of the north,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

“For in the direction of the four winds* of the heavens I have spread YOU people abroad,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people,+ if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins,+ and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues.